How do judges of the Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Court of Appeals / Joined 2003 / Active

Stephen L. Borrello

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Stephen L. Borrello is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Borrello authored 50 published opinions for the court (2003–2018), plus 11 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Bennett (827 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 64 of these were attributed to Borrello by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2010	People v. Bennett†	290 Mich. App. 465	827
2004	Walsh v. Taylor· Dissent†	689 N.W.2d 506	349
2014	People v. Henry†	305 Mich. App. 127	259
2018	Lindsey Patrick v. Virginia B Turkelson†	913 N.W.2d 369	244
2013	People v. Guajardo†	300 Mich. App. 26	194
2018	Jawad a Shah Md Pc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co†	920 N.W.2d 148	189
2005	People v. Meshell†	696 N.W.2d 754	147
2010	Nuculovic v. Hill· Concurrence†	287 Mich. App. 58	135
2004	VanVorous v. Burmeister†	687 N.W.2d 132	132
2018	People v. Portus (In Re Portus)†	926 N.W.2d 33	87
2012	Kalaj v. Khan†	295 Mich. App. 420	81
2006	Oliver v. Smith†	715 N.W.2d 314	81
2008	In Re Archer†	744 N.W.2d 1	70
2003	People v. Albers†	672 N.W.2d 336	67
2016	People v. Blanton†	317 Mich. App. 107	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 64 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Stephen L. Borrello on?: Stephen L. Borrello is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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23 years on the Michigan Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).